labor policy in california

This is a bit of a detour but it is still interesting all the same.
I've been listening to a lot of talk radio lately and only today did I catch anything of value coming through the airwaves. (public radio... biased but still good radio... that's another question)

The topic in subject was a bill being proposed for California that would mandate employers to provide 9 days of payed sick leave for their employees.
The pro argument consisted of anti-business idealists (almost back to union days) who saw this as a must to prevent the transmission of sickness at the workplace as well as a right of the Californian work-horse. They supported their argument by siting the recently implemented micro-version of the bill in San Francisco.

This is a bunch of pettifoggery! What supporters of this bill fail to realize is that the cost of implementing this liberty will be imposed by small business owners who will subsequently be forced to reduce an already existing exogenous benefit which was previously provided. Employees will be not better off! and if anything they will be worse off. Increased restrictions on starting business is like handcuffing your star pitcher in the ninth...
Right now--at this moment in history--we need our ingenuity to pull through. We need our innovative (American) entrepreneur. Small business is where it's at. And seriously what is the big deal with getting sick. I mean, where does it stop. Next it will be a requirement for employers to provide DayQuil and condoms. No! Grow up America take care of yourself.

Not to mention that economic theory was never mention in the context that the 9 day limit acts like a cap or ceiling. They didn't site this but I would predict that if this law were passed it would no be interfered as security for the last case scenario where people are just too sick to come to work. Rather it would be interpreted as "sweet! now I can take 9 days vacation." Which I would say, is not the purpose of the bill.

Employees know this too, they don't need to be babied. If you want their jobs to be better promote small business so that employers would have to compete for their employees and employees would be able to choose from a variety of benefit packages. It seems to me that the underlying problem that is not being addressed is that people are trapped in jobs not that bosses are evil and should be regulated. Get your facts straight before you make the government into a dictator.